Improvement in packages for paint



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Package f or Paint.

" No; 159,68()l 'Patented Feb. A,1`875, Y

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES T. HUNT, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

" l IMPROVEMENT IN PACKAGES FOR PAINT.

S peeiiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 159.680, dated February 9,1875; application led August 28, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. HUNT, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,have invented a certain new and Improved Package for Paint, of which the following is a full, clear, and complete description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making a part of this specication, in Which- Figure l is a side view of the can. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section. Figs. 3, it, and 5 are detached sections.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The nature of this invention relates to a can for paint, 8vo.; and the object thereof is to make a can With stronger heads than are used on the ordinary paint-cans, and the peculiar manner oi' securing the heads to the can.

The following is a more full and complete description In the drawings, A B, Figs. 1 and 2, represent the heads of the can, which heads are made of wood and C, the body ofthe can. The heads AB are turned with a groove, a, around their en tire circumference, as seen inFigs. 2 and 5. Then they are saturated or treated with a preparation which will prevent the exuding of the oily properties of the paint. The upper edge ofthe metallic section of the can is made straight, as seen iu Fig. 3,Which igure represents a detached section of the can after the first process. The lower edge is also made straight, in like manner vto the upper edge. c in the drawings represents abead, which forms a shoulder for the heads to rest upon; also, adding strength to the can.

The body O of the can is rst made from a piece of tin, and the bead or shoulder c formed. Then the heads are inserted, and the edges b `of the tin turned into the grooves a, and the edge of the tin being forced into the Wood in a tight and secure manner, forming a tenon or tongue, d, as seen in Fig. 2. To make the seam still more secure it may be luted.

In making paint-cans with grooved heads, as above described, the oily properties of the paint cannot run out and escape. They are also better for transportation than the ordinary paint-can with the metallic heads, as they will not bend and bruise.

In making the can for dry articles, such as dry pigments, Src., the edge b of the can need only be turned into the groove of the head; but in making tight cans for liquid or mixed paints, &c., the edge b, after being bent into the groove a, is forced into the body of the wood at t-he inside end thereof, to insure a tight joint.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In cans for paint, 8vo., the combination of the grooved heads A B, the tongue or tenon d of the can, shoulder c, and body O, constructed and arranged in relation to each other in the manner substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

W. H. BUERIDGE, F. D. STONE. 

